Hmm this is an interesting idea! I feel like Toren could totally turn into another new unique species, she could fashion herself a body made of cloth, he kind of already has. What makes the stitch people so life like? How do they become sentient? Mana?

Omg yes make bird’s dreams come true!!! That would be so adorable. I could totally see Erin somehow manifesting fish birds with a new skill as a result of her magical innkeeper class, kind of how she knows how to make the exact kind of food that her customers would enjoy. I could see her gaining a skill that could attract, create, or at least create the illusion of, the exact creatures that would bring the most delight and joy to her dedicated employee

I like your first point, that is interesting!
Toren’s different personalities is seeming more like dissociative identity disorder, and also “parts” from internal family systems. And I’ve also definitely heard of ppl having different parts with different gender identities!

What? That in no way is the same. Toren is literally a bone golem, he’s basically a robot. That in no way is the same as a slave or animal. He’s literally all bones and runs on magic, why would Erin think that this literal brainless skeleton had a compacity to think and feel when even its creator didn’t know that could happen?

“The problem was that while he had only two good options and neither worked.”

–> was that he had only two good options, and neither worked

I know you already put the first two volumes on amazon but I would also like to say thanks because without that I never would have found this great series.